At practice this week, he acted as a reserve stand-in for
Duke's Mason Plumlee on the Spartans' scout team. The 6-foot-7, 205-pound
freshman's job was to mimic Plumlee so that center Matt Costello when he needed
a break from doing it could get himself a good look at the Blue Devils' offense.

And in four games this season, Bohnhoff has made last-minute
cameo appearances during mop-up time.

Bohnhoff still gets a thrill that he has gone from being
recruited by Division II and Division III schools at Nouvel Catholic Central High
School in Saginaw to playing intramural basketball at Michigan State to playing a minute in Michigan State's NCAA tournament win
against Memphis on Saturday.

"It was real surreal," Bohnhoff said Thursday. "I walked on
not even five months ago, and now there's only 16 teams playing right now, and
I got to get on the court. I didn't touch the ball or anything, but it was
still just cool to be out there."

Bohnhoff said he went to Michigan State to be a pre-med
student and made the team after attending a walk-on tryout in October.

His reward came last month when during a 75-52 rout of rival
Michigan, he entered the game without his last name stitched to the back of his
jersey, corralled a rebound, got fouled and scored his first career point on a free
throw he banked in with 21 seconds left.

"I just did not want to air ball that free throw," Bohnhoff
said. "It banked in, but I still scored.

"Finally, when you're in the game, it's like wow, I'm like
actually here."